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Rumsfeld repays McCain; declines to back candidate By Roxana Tiron Posted: 06/18/08 08:00 PM [ET] Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently declined to answer whether he will support Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president. McCain, the GOP presidential standard-bearer, has been one of Rumsfeld’s harshest critics. McCain has said that Rumsfeld will “go down as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.” The Hill talked to Rumsfeld earlier this month near his downtown D.C. office. Rumsfeld told The Hill that he has not followed the presidential elections, but instead has been focused on work for his private...

The candidate's spouse runs an investment portfolio of an estimated $36.6 million to $53.4 million and chairs one of the nation's largest beer distributorships. Among presidential candidates, GOP Sen. John McCain has a particularly sophisticated financial adviser: his wife. Much of what the public knows of Cindy McCain is from dirt-digging news reports: She is a recovering prescription-drug addict who has endured several miscarriages and a minor stroke. Less well-known is that she is chairwoman of Hensley, the nation's third-largest distributor of Anheuser-Busch (BUD, news, msgs) products. She also controls the McCain family portfolio, which is estimated at between $36.6...